News: conferences, events and seminars
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Latest events. . .
ERC Consolidator Grants Webinar: online from the British Academy
'Authoritarian Constitutions' Series: The nation-state: not yet ready for the dustbin of history?, online from QMUL
Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Doctoral Training Programme: Information session for applicants – online from Queen's University Belfast
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
SLSA York 2022: call for papers and posters – call closes: 7 January 2022
LSA Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop 2022, online and Lisbon, Portugal
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy, Keele University
2021
Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the failed mother
Date; 2 December 2021
Venue: Hybrid – Durham University Law School
Speaker: Dr Emma Milne, Durham Law School
The Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (CCLCJ) and Gender and Law at Durham (GLAD) are delighted to host the launch of Dr Emma Milne (Durham Law School) book Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother. The event will take place in person and online. Please note that in-person registration closes one week before the event is held. Online registration is available until the day itself. See website for details.
A Feminist Review of the Human Rights Act: Workshop
Date: 3 December 2021
Venue: online and University of Liverpool
See announcement for details.
Barriers and Threats to Access to Justice in the Immigration and Asylum System:
Date: 7 December 2021
Venue: JUSTICE webinar
See website for details.
Book launch: Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine, by Dr Hedi Viterbo
Date: 8 December 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
See website for details of this free event jointly hosted by the Queen Mary Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, the International State Crime Initiative, and the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
'Authoritarian Constitutions' Series: The nation-state: not yet ready for the dustbin of history?
Date: 8 December 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
This series is hosted by the Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society. See website for details and registration.
Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Doctoral Training Programme: Information session for applicants
Date: 8 December 2021
Venue: online from Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details. Application deadline: 14 January 2022.
Criminalising Coercive Control: Challenges for the implementation of Northern Ireland’s new domestic abuse offence
Date 16 December 2021
Venue: online
Organisers: Dr. Ronagh McQuigg, Queen’s University Belfast, and Professor Vanessa Bettinson, Dr Montfort University, Leicester
Please see announcement for full details including confirmed speakers. This event is free but please register.
2022
January
SLSA Postgraduate 2022
Dates: 11–12 January 2022
Venue: online
Details about this free event will be circulated in due course via the SLSA website, weekly ebulletin and social media.
ERC Consolidator Grants Webinar
Date: 13 January 2021
Venue: online from the British Academy
See website for details and registration.
'Race Against the Machine: Febrile Politics and Stasis Criminology'
Date: 19 January 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Professor Coretta Phillips
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
February
Rethinking Work and the Carceral State
Date: 3 February 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Dr Jon Burnett (and Professor Avery Gordon as discussant)
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
AHRC Engaging with Government Programme: open for applications
Dates: 22–24 February 2022
Venue: Institute for Government Offices, London
This three-day course is designed to provide an insight into the policy-making process and help participants develop the skills needed to pursue the policy implications of their research. See website for details. Closing date: 28 October 2021.
March
Racialised Constructions of Punishability in Sentencing Hearings for 'Unwanted' Migrants
Date: 24 March 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Dr Gemma Lousley
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
April
Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2022
Venue: UCL Centre for Law and the Environment, University College London
Please see announcement for further details.
SLSA Annual Conference 2022: call for papers
Dates: 6–8 April 2022
Venue: York Law School, University of York and online
See website for details. Call closes: 7 January 2022.
White Terror: On the far right, counterterrorism and the racialisation of violence
Date: 28 April 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department.
Speaker: Dr Aaron Winter
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
May
McGill Graduate Law Conference: call for submissions
Dates: 5–6 May 2022
Venue: online and McGill University Montreal, Canada
Theme: (Legal) Adaptation
See announcement for details. Closing date: 13 February 2022.
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy
Date: 23 May 2022
Venue: Keele Hall, Keele University
Further details will be announced in due course. This is an SLSA-sponsored event under our Seminar Scheme.
Decolonizing Postcolonialism and the Case of Kashmir
Date: 26 May 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Dr Ather Zia
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
June
SCOTLIN Early Career Scholars Symposium: call for papers
Dates: 1–2 June 2022
Venue: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
See announcement and website for details. Closing date: 10 January 2022.
Racialized Swarming, Sacralized Politics, and Criminal Penetratabilities: Occupied Jerusalem, and settler colonial Israel: online from Birkbeck
Date: 2 June 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
W G Hart Workshop 2022: call for papers
Dates: 9–10 June 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Theme: Responding to the Crises: Law, alternative economies and activism
See website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2022.
LSA Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop 2022: call for applications
Dates and venues: 27–30 June 2022 online; and 12 July 2022 Lisbon, Portugal, and online
See website for details. Closing date: 17 November 2021. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
Blackscapes: Urban precarity, state violence and insurgent politics in a zone of nonbeing
Date: 30 June 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminolgoy Department
Speaker: Dr Jamie Amparo Alves
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
July
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2022: call for papers
Date: July 2022 tbc
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal: submissions now open
Dates: 13–16 July 2022
Venue: ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Theme: 'Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy'
Please visit website for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts extended to: 22 November 2021. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
2023
May
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.